Germany adds 430MW in offshore turbines in first half 2018

Germany has added 429.5MW in new offshore wind turbines in the first half of 2018, but those machines still await grid connection, so that the country’s cumulated grid-linked offshore wind capacity remains at 5.4GW, new figures by Deutsche Windguard show.

The five wind groups that commissioned the offshore statistics – AGOW, the BWE, the Offshore Wind Foundation, WAB and VDMA Power Systems – say that although additions are behind those of last year, they are according to Germany’s 2020 offshore build-out plan.